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Trump administration announces White House ballroom designed by McCrery Architects
The proposed 90,000 sq ft addition would replace the existing East Wing and is intended to increase capacity for state events
AHMM working on plans for 35-storey co-living tower next to Old Street roundabout
Finsgate House scheme to contain 500 homes and adjacent office block
Why cutting corners in specification is costing you more
CPD 11 2025: Bi-fold and sliding doors for marine and coastal environments
Mastering the detail: Episode 4
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Anna Heringer on sustainable architecture, rammed earth, and what the Global North can learn from the Global South
Mary Richardson explores Anna Heringer’s sustainable philosophy and her mission to bring traditional materials into mainstream architecture
Specification
What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo
Finalist for Individual House Architect of the Year Award 2025, Paper Igloo guides us through the specification challenges present at Melamar
Mastering the detail: Episode 4
What do architects really need from manufacturers today? Episode 4 of our unmissable Q+A series lifts the lid on how expectations are changing. Join Tom Jordan, director at Barr Gazetas, as he shares first-hand insights into the evolving specification landscape.
Mosley Thorold turns north London maisonette into material-rich family home
The practice was co-founded by Nathaniel Mosley, who led the project as both architect and main contractor for his own family home
CPD
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Architect of the Year Awards 2024
What made this project… Manor Lodge by IID Architects
What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo
What made this project… De Valera Library and Súil Gallery by Keith Williams Architects
What made this project… Regional Science Centre by INI Design Studio
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Boomers to Zoomers
Barratt Redrow commits to accessible playgrounds on all new developments
Report calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children
Seventeen years on: why England needs a new National Play Strategy
England is failing to plan for its ageing population – the spending review must put that right
The quiet revolution in built environment education and engagement – starting with children
The Coach: Why age isn’t the issue – it’s the life stage that counts
2,000 young people, one mission: Rethinking access to architecture at the Festival of the Future
More than a masterplan: the people power behind Earls Court’s next chapter
The built environment belongs to everyone – so why are young voices so often excluded?
Westminster’s public toilets get a designer makeover as Hugh Broughton Architects completes first upgrade in £12.7m programme
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In Pictures
Allies and Morrison’s leisure centre completes at Canada Water redevelopment
HTA Design completes two new residential buildings at Wood Wharf
In pictures: TP Bennett completes Stonecutter City office development
In pictures: Howells completes Uncle Wembley Gardens BTR scheme in Brent
In pictures: Emrys Architects completes Berners and Wells mixed-use scheme in Fitzrovia
In pictures: Renzo Piano’s Shard Place reaches practical completion
Wright & Wright completes £40m masterplan project at Lambeth Palace
In pictures: dRMM’s mixed-use industrial and residential scheme in Hackney Wick
In pictures: Mowat & Company redesigns Flint HQ in south London
In pictures: Kimbell Pike Architects converts listed Arts and Crafts building into Montessori nursery
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WA100 2025
WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble
WA100 2025: Digital edition
WA100 2025: The big list
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In the face of increasingly extreme weather, developers, design engineers, architects and policymakers must take the lead
The recent heatwave presents yet more evidence that we face a challenge – and a huge opportunity – to construct buildings that are thermally comfortable, energy-efficient and wellness-led, says Abhishek Parmar
Reinstating Level 7 apprenticeship funding is essential for architecture’s future
Tracy Meller argues that the government’s plan to withdraw funding for Level 7 apprenticeships will dismantle a pathway that works
Planning for both people and nature is not a contradiction
As new legislation threatens to weaken habitat protections, Sophie Thompson asks what it would take to plan with respect for both people and the natural world
Unlocking housing delivery: can we build better, faster, and fairer?
Hien Nguyen outlines the delivery barriers that must be tackled if the UK is to meet its housing ambitions without sacrificing quality
What’s stopping us from designing for deconstruction?
In a throwaway culture, Anna Beckett argues that architects must take greater responsibility for how buildings are eventually dismantled and their materials reused
Don’t defund thinking: why architectural education needs space to question, not just produce ‘practice ready’ graduates
As pressure mounts to streamline architectural education, Emily Crompton and Sam Higgins argue that universities remain essential spaces for reflection, critique and experimentation – and should not be reduced to training centres for industry
Anna Heringer on sustainable architecture, rammed earth, and what the Global North can learn from the Global South
Mary Richardson explores Anna Heringer’s sustainable philosophy and her mission to bring traditional materials into mainstream architecture
Nansledan: can design codes and long-term stewardship deliver better housing?
As part of Building Design’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, Mary Richardson visits Nansledan, the Duchy of Cornwall’s urban extension to Newquay. While its traditional architecture divides opinion, she finds that the project raises important questions about stewardship, planning and designing new housing at scale
Will the Building Safety Regulator overhaul be enough to tackle the delays?
The government has promised to speed up approvals for high-rise residential schemes which have been languishing for up to a year in the new building safety regime. The industry’s reponse so far has been muted. With patience running out and costs mounting, Tom Lowe speaks to the people caught up ...
Designing Tomorrow’s Housing - meet the campaign’s advisory panel
As part of Building Design’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, Ben Flatman introduces the expert advisory panel whose breadth of experience will help guide the discussion on how to raise housing quality while delivering the homes the country needs
Designing Tomorrow’s Housing: Putting quality at the heart of 1.5 million homes
Ben Flatman introduces Building Design’s new campaign, which asks how we can raise the quality of housing while meeting the government’s pledge to build 1.5 million new homes
Building faith – Britain’s mosque architecture as cultural resistance
Oriana Fernandez reflects on the ideas in Shahed Saleem’s new book, The Counter-Architecture of the British Mosque
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76 Upper Ground: Denys Lasdun’s 1960s South Bank vision is realised at last
Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures
Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors
A Serpentine Pavilion for anxious times – but is that enough?
Bennetts’ timber and straw robotics lab pilots new net zero carbon building standard
From complexity to clarity: The Sainsbury Wing transformed
A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)
Designing from first principles: Inside David Kohn Architects’ Gradel Quadrangles
Industrial remix: how Hawkins\Brown retuned Wakefield’s Tileyard North for the creative economy
Designing for dance: inside O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East
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Reviews
The Manifesto House: Buildings that changed the future of architecture
Form Follows Love: Anna Heringer on building with empathy, intuition and mud
Nuts, bolts and preservation: High Tech as heritage
RA Summer Exhibition: with no designated space, architecture is overshadowed
Surface Reflections: a quieter, more thoughtful London Design Biennale
Architecture and Social Change: Shaping an Impactful Practice
Beyond the optics: identity, class and the politics of equality in architecture and the arts
Faith, reuse and surveillance: Birmingham’s mosques through Mahtab Hussain’s lens
Between colonialism and nation-building: rethinking African modernism
Speedos, lidos and lost pools: a stylish look at swimming’s social past
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